Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:05:54AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > A single pre-dependency is not enough. You will need to convert all
> > of adduser's dependencies into pre-dependencies, and probably most
> > of the things it depends on as well.
>
> No. adduser can still use normal depends. Pre-depends just means the
> dep'd on package has to be configured. And depends are for this
> exactly.
>
> You're confusing pre-depends and essentialness.
I thought the same at first, but according to policy, pre-depends also
allows the depended-upon package to be merely unpacked or
half-configured provided that it has been fully configured at some point
in the past. Is this not correct?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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